[GS] Pileus 6-13 cm. diam., pinkish buff to ochraceous buff, young specimens sometimes pale grey, waxy, hygrophanous, convex at first becoming undulate with a more or less depressed centre, margin remaining strongly downrolled; flesh white to buff, with a water-soaked layer above the gills. Gills sinuate to decurrent, buff, thin, rather crowded, with many short gills. Stipe 4-7 X 1-2 -5 cm., buff, with or without slight mauve tinge, solid or somewhat hollow, finely fibrillose. Spores 4.5-5 X 3um, non-amyloid, shallow nodulose, thin-walled (Fig. 1/12, p. 10). Strong sour smell. [Bandoni] spores 5-6 x 3.5-4 um, ellipsoid in profile and face view, round in polar view, verruculose, verrucae cyanophilic, inamyloid; basidia lacking cyanophilic bodies, 4-sterigmate; clamp connections present. This is not a species of Rhodocybe, but should be placed in Clitocybe section Verruculosae. [EH] Basidiospores 4.5–6 × 3–4 um, ovoid, weakly rugulose, thin-walled, inamyloid. Basidia 24–30 × 4–6 um, cylindrical to slender clavate, 4-spored, clampless. Cheilocystidia (Pseudocystidia) 35–45 × 3–5 um, scattered, cylindrical, towards occasionally with irregular, lobed projections, thin-walled, hyaline, refractive content absent. Caulocystidia in shape and size like cheilocystidia, often fasciculate. Pileipellis a cutis composed of short-celled, cylindrical, irregularly interwoven hyphae, 2–4(–5) um diam., terminal cells not distinctive, non-gelatinized walls thin, in KOH encrusted with yellow-brown pigment. Oleiferous hyphae absent. Clamp connections absent. [JAC] Clamps connections not observed on any tissue. Spore ornamentation is not cyanophilous but it does consist of verrucae rather than surface rugulation. length=4.5–5.6µm (µ=5.1, σ=0.24), width=3.2–3.9µm (µ=3.5, σ=0.19), Q=1.3–1.7µm (µ=1.48, σ=0.08), n=32. No cystidia observed. The stipe of the dried material is not attenuating towards the base. The growth in rough grass and wai-iti domain suggests this is an introduction. It has the spores of a Lepista but the failure to find clamps is problematic.

No type collection was found in Kew. Another collection under the same name (STEV. 1097) proved to be a species of Rhodocybe Maire.

New Zealand: North Island, Wairoa Gorge, 26.IV. 1956, leg. Read in Stevenson-Cone (K, holotype). Wai-iti Domain. 19.V. 1956, leg. Stewart (K). South Island, Nelson, Murchison, Matakitaki, 27.1.1969, leg. Horak (ZT 69/29).

Among grass and under Nothofagus fusca (Hook. f.) Oerst. and N. menziesii (Hook. f.) Oerst. in forests. New Zealand.

Stevenson (1964: loc. cit.).

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.

Pileus 6-13 cm diam., pinkish buff to ochraceous buff, young specimens sometimes pale grey, waxy, hygrophanous, convex at first becoming undulate with a more or less depressed centre, margin remaining strongly downrolled; flesh white to buff, with a water-soaked layer above the gills. Gills sinuate to decurrent, buff, thin, rather crowded, with many short gills. Stipe 4-7 x 1-2.5 cm, buff, with or without slight mauve tinge, solid or somewhat hollow, finely fibrillose. Spores 4.5-5 x 3 µm non-amyloid, shallow nodulose, thin-walled (Fig. 12). Strong sour smell.

In rough grass, Wairoa Gorge, 26.4.1956, D. Read in Stevenson (type); Wa1-1ti Domain, 19.5.1956, M. Stewart.

Pileus 6-13 cm diam., puniceo-ochraceus usque in spec minibus junioribus interdum pallide griseus, cereus, hygrophanus, primum convexus, deinde undulatus, medio ± depresso, margine semper valde deorsum revoluto; came alba usque bubalina, strato hygrophano supra lamellas sito. Lamellae sinuatae usque decurrentes, bubalinae, tenues, confertiores, lamellis brevibus multis. Stipes 4-7 x 1-2.5 cm, bubalinus, interdum leviter malvaceo-tinctus, solidus vel subcavus, tenuiter fibrillosus. Sporae 4.5-5 x 3 µm haud amyloideae, leviter nodulosae, parietibus tenuibus. Odor fortis, acidulus.

Typus: D. Read in Stevenson 1030.